FIRST GRADE E-LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Week 2

MATH
● Oral Counting: Practice skip counting forward to 120 by 10s
● Find Number Groups: Say, “I see 3 birds on the fence and each bird has 2 wings—there are 6 wings. I
see 2 cars and each car has 4 wheels—that’s eight wheels all together.” Draw a picture and write the
total.
● Add them up!: When playing with small toys such as toy cars, blocks, crayons have your child take 2
handfuls. Count how many pieces are in each hand. Have your child hold their hands together and
figure out how many they have all together.
● Count them Down!: How many are in the bowl? Count the number of pieces in your bowl when you
are eating foods such as pretzels, grapes, or crackers. Stop and recount after you eat a few pieces.
Then, figure out how many are left in the bowl.
● Written Numbers: Practice writing numbers 0-120.

Additional Math practice (optional):

Sign-in to www.reflexmath.com or www.student.freckle.com for more math practice

LITERACY
● Read a book: Read or listen to someone reading a book. Identify the main character.
● Speaking and Listening: Tell someone in your house about your favorite book.
● Writing: Draw a picture and write about what you did this week. Where did you go? Who were you
with? How did you feel?
● Grammar: Go on a parts of speech scavenger hunt. In a book, try to find two nouns, verbs, and
adjectives and record them on your paper.
● High Frequency Words: Continue to practice your high frequency words by reading, spelling, and
writing them in a sentence.

SCIENCE/PLTW
● Investigation: Bird Beaks! Fill a bowl with different shaped tiny objects (ex. Cheerios, Seeds, Rocks).
This represents the food. Try using a fork, knife, spoon, binder clip, and straw (folded in half) to pick up
the items. This represents your bird beak. How many pieces did you get with each beak? Which beak
was best for picking up each type of food? Make a data table to show your results.
● Classifying objects: Possible materials - 5 rocks, 10 crayons, 10 buttons, 3 pencils, 5 marbles, 4
cotton balls, 4 toy cars, 5 coins, 1 box. Put the items that are the same into piles. Organize all of your
items into groups. How many groups do you have? Put all of the items back into a box and dump them
out again. Can you think of another way to organize the items? Ex. can you organize by color, by size,
or by shape? Can you think of another way to organize the items?
● Comparing Parents and Offspring: Draw a baby animal with its parents. How is the baby animal
similar to its parents? How is it different?
● Making Observations: The Sun: Go outside when the sun is rising up in the sky. Draw an arrow with
chalk (or on paper) in that direction. Label it East. Go outside when the sun is setting in the sky. Draw
an arrow with chalk (or on paper) in that direction. Label it West. Draw how the sun moves in the sky
during the day.
● Making Observations: The Stars: Go outside at night. Draw a picture and write about what you see in
the sky. Go outside the next day. Look in the sky for those same things. Why do you think you can’t see
the stars during the daytime?
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 ● What’s that sound?: Have a partner go into another room or turn their back. Select a non-breakable
item. Tap or shake the item until it makes a noise. Have your partner guess what the item is. Repeat
this for 5 items and then switch jobs.

SOCIAL STUDIES
● Geography/Civics: Draw a picture and write a sentence on how to take care of the environment.
● History: Think about your school day. Make a schedule to show a family member. Write down what
you do first, second, third, etc - as much as you can remember
● Civic Virtue: Describe your responsibilities at home and at school and why they are important
● Economics: Look at objects around your house and decide if they are “needs” or “wants”
● Community: Talk about what makes a good friend. Draw a picture of something you like to do with
friends.

SEL
● Play a game with a friend or a relative. After the game, talk about why it is okay to lose sometimes.
● Draw a picture of something that makes you laugh.
● Ask three people what their favorite candy is and tell them your favorite candy
● Read a book. Name one feeling/emotion one of the characters felt during the story.
● Calming activity: take 4 deep breaths and create a square with your fingers as you breathe, repeat 5
times

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Specials: For each day we are out, please choose one of the specials listed below and complete that
assignment.

ART
● Using any materials you would like, choose one of the items below and complete the
assignment in your sketchbook. If you do not have your sketchbook, feel free to complete the
assignment on whatever paper you have available. Be sure to think about the concepts you
have learned in class and try to incorporate and identify them in your picture.
○ Thick and Thin Lines. Tactile Texture. Primary and Secondary Colors. Light, Medium,
and Dark Value. Organic and Geometric Shapes. Patterns. Overlapping.

Sketchbook Ideas to Choose From:

● Choose 1 color from all of the colors on the color wheel. Write down that color name
and list 10 things your color reminds you of (ex. Blue makes you think of the sky.).
Create a picture of 1 or more of those things.
● What is your greatest fear? Draw what this fear looks like to you.
● When do you get angry and why? Draw a picture of yourself with an angry expression.
● Make a picture of things with wheels with any materials you want to use.
● Draw things that open and close.

P.E.
● Do 20 jumping jacks, 10 sit ups and 10 push ups
● Stand on one foot and count to 30, stand on the other foot and count to 30

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 ● Listen to your favorite song and play freeze dance:ask a family member to play the song and
pause the song at random times in the song. Remember you have to freeze when the music
stops playing.
● Jump with two feet together 10 times, jump on your right foot 10 times and jump on your left
foot 10 times
● Ask a family member to play catch with you: practice pointing and throwing, two hands in front
to catch
● Draw a picture of your favorite fruit or vegetable

MUSIC
● Listen to a song you have never heard before.
○ Using any materials you would like, create a picture about how it makes you feel on a
blank piece of paper.
○ Write 1 or 2 sentences about how the music makes you feel.

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 Math Recording Sheet

Add them Up!

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Count them Down!

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Written Numbers

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 ELA - 1st Grade Week 2 Handouts

Read a book: Read or listen to someone reading a book. Identify the main character.

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Speaking and Listening: Tell someone in your house about your favorite book.

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Writing: Draw a picture and write about what you did this week. Where did you go? Who were you with? How
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Grammar Scavenger Hunt: Go on a parts of speech scavenger hunt. In a book, try to find two nouns, verbs,
and adjectives and record them on your paper.

Nouns

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Adjectives

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High Frequency Words: Practice your high frequency words by reading them to someone in your house.
Then choose 5 words and use them in a sentence. Circle the high frequency word in each sentence.

First Grade HFW (Fry words 61-160)

Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
1 some 26 called 51 live 76 means
2 her 27 who 52 me 77 old
3 would 28 am 53 back 78 any
4 make 29 its 54 give 79 same
5 like 30 now 55 most 80 tell
6 him 31 find 56 very 81 boy
7 into 32 long 57 after 82 following
8 time 33 down 58 thing 83 came
9 has 34 day 59 our 84 want
10 look 35 did 60 just 85 show
11 two 36 get 61 name 86 also
12 more 37 come 62 good 87 around
13 write 38 made 63 sentence 88 farm
14 go 39 may 64 man 89 three
15 see 40 part 65 think 90 small
16 number 41 over 66 say 91 set
17 no 42 new 67 great 92 put
18 way 43 sound 68 where 93 end
19 could 44 take 69 help 94 does
20 people 45 only 70 through 95 another
21 my 46 little 71 much 96 well
22 than 47 work 72 before 97 large
23 first 48 know 73 line 98 must
24 water 49 place 74 right 99 big
25 been 50 years 75 too 100 even

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